Tracfin organized Friday November 7, 2025 in Bercy (Paris) the third edition of its Forum for professionals in Combating money laundering and terrorist financing (LCB-FT). For this third Forum, Tracfin had chosen to address the theme cryptoassets.

Two round tables completed the program of this edition of the Tracfin Forum in order to highlight the contributions complementary to the various declarants in the financial sectors and non-financial. The first round table was devoted to the challenges and money laundering and terrorist financing risks associated with cryptoassets. According to Pierre Allégret, Deputy Director of Sanctions and fight against organized crime at the Directorate-General of the Treasury, the Agency management and recovery of seized and confiscated assets (Agrasc) would have under his responsibility around 200 million euros in stored cryptoassets on wallets.

The Tracfin report on the declarative activity of Actors also show a rapid growth in reports of suspicion from digital asset service providers, with a doubling between 2023 and 2024 to exceed 3,000 declarations. The offenses of most reported are money laundering, scams and the purchase of child pornographic content, then, to a lesser extent, the financing of terrorism and the evasion of sanctions.

According to the DGT representative, “the regulations are quite mature, even if mixers [services allowing to anonymize transactions on cryptoassets, editor's note] were not prohibited, emphasized. The challenge now is European harmonization because some platforms exploit the heterogeneity of anti-money laundering rules between countries.”

Laurent Martel, director of tax legislation, recalled that a regulatory reporting framework of digital assets (Crypto-Asset reporting framework) had been adopted by 53 countries within mso-ansi-language:fr; Mso-fareast-language:en-us; Mso-bidi-language:ar-sa"> OECD in 2021. This frame is applicable from 2027 in the form of Mso-bidi-language:ar-sa"> the DAC directive 8 (Directive of administrative cooperation) which provides for the obligation for service providers of digital asset services to report transactions. Its objective is to harmonize the rules for the taxation of income derived from transactions on cryptoassets. This directive, transposed into French law in the draft Finance Act 2025, will come into force on January 1, 2026. And should give a stop to this type of tax evasion.